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Bring the Grizzlies back to Vancouver (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by AllOutRaptors@alien.top to c/nba@nba.space

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The Memphis Grizzlies are currently selling tickets for as low as $2 per seat. They are averaging the 5th worst attendance in the league at 16, 833 which is worse than half of the Vancouver Grizzlies seasons almost 30 years ago when average attendance league wide was much lower than now.

Am I still petty that Memphis took our team? Absolutely.

But I can also guarantee you'd be hard pressed to find tickets to a Vancouver NBA game for the price of a quarter of a water at Rogers Arena. Not to mention I'm positive that Vancouver could do better than the 5th worst attendance in the league.

I look forward to seeing salty Memphis fans in my DMs, but just remember you would be frustrated too if a worse market stole you're NBA team, and then showed poor support to an actually talented team.

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[–] CoachMorelandSmith@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

It’s been over 20 years.

The Grizzlies are Memphis’s team now (technically Robert Petra’s), and as long as the owner is fine with having the team here then they’re not going to move. If Memphis’s attendance was truly a problem, then he would be the person most affected by that problem.

If Vancouver wants an NBA team, then they need to focus on getting an expansion team. Or just hope and prey that Pera decides he wants to move the team, but there’s no indication that’s the case, since there’s generally been a good relationship between the franchise and city leaders.

The Vancouver Grizzlies was the worst franchise in sports. The Memphis Grizzlies haven’t been great the whole time, but they’ve been a hell of a lot better than the Vancouver Grizzlies Memphis has always been a basketball town, and it makes sense to have an NBA team here. If you go into any bar in town, there’s a good chance you’ll see someone wearing griz gear, and that’s not always the case in a lot of other cities.

We love our Grizzlies here in Memphis, and they’re not going anywhere anytime soon.